Hello,
first, I never had issues with my Mavic Pro. I owned the drone for 2 years and been in the air literally hundreds of times. Never had any accident.
BUT
Yesterday, when the drone was in the air for like 5 minutes (about 1500 ft away), suddenly the phone disconnected. OK, not a big deal. I unplugged the cable, plugged it in again, restarted the app. Nothing. OK, not a problem. I hit the RTH and the drone was approaching home. I was able to see that the distance on the RC is going down, so I was like - OK, it's coming home. Suddenly the RC disconnected from the drone and it wasn't able to get it reconnected again. I restarted it and nothing. I was trying to see the drone, but I didn't see it anywhere. So I waited for it to land. Nothing. I waited for like 30 minutes, restarted the RC couple more times and still nothing. I searched the whole area close to home point and nothing.
So I went home, analysed the phone log file and last know location of the drone was above river when the phone disconnected. I was thinking, there should be some log in the RC too, since it was connected to the drone longer. So I did some research and yes - there is what is called Black Box in the RC too. I downloaded it. Found a way to decrypt it and was able to see what was happening with the drone.
Based on the log from the RC the drone was approaching the home point when at a distance of 27ft from the home point the distance suddenly changed to 999999ft !!! and the drone kept on flying. The remote control was connected for another 3 minutes to the drone - the distance was still 999999ft. And after those 3 minutes the RC disconnected and wasn't able to connect any more.
So here's my question. What do you think happened? Did the drone had some type of glitch, when it suddenly started to think it is 999999ft away from the home point and it kept on trying to approach to the home point? If yes - would you assume it kept on flying the same direction? Or?
I would like to locate the drone - there is high chance it didn't hit anything, so it was able to land somewhere - it still had 52% battery when it lost the connection with RC.
Thank you.
first, I never had issues with my Mavic Pro. I owned the drone for 2 years and been in the air literally hundreds of times. Never had any accident.
BUT
Yesterday, when the drone was in the air for like 5 minutes (about 1500 ft away), suddenly the phone disconnected. OK, not a big deal. I unplugged the cable, plugged it in again, restarted the app. Nothing. OK, not a problem. I hit the RTH and the drone was approaching home. I was able to see that the distance on the RC is going down, so I was like - OK, it's coming home. Suddenly the RC disconnected from the drone and it wasn't able to get it reconnected again. I restarted it and nothing. I was trying to see the drone, but I didn't see it anywhere. So I waited for it to land. Nothing. I waited for like 30 minutes, restarted the RC couple more times and still nothing. I searched the whole area close to home point and nothing.
So I went home, analysed the phone log file and last know location of the drone was above river when the phone disconnected. I was thinking, there should be some log in the RC too, since it was connected to the drone longer. So I did some research and yes - there is what is called Black Box in the RC too. I downloaded it. Found a way to decrypt it and was able to see what was happening with the drone.
Based on the log from the RC the drone was approaching the home point when at a distance of 27ft from the home point the distance suddenly changed to 999999ft !!! and the drone kept on flying. The remote control was connected for another 3 minutes to the drone - the distance was still 999999ft. And after those 3 minutes the RC disconnected and wasn't able to connect any more.
So here's my question. What do you think happened? Did the drone had some type of glitch, when it suddenly started to think it is 999999ft away from the home point and it kept on trying to approach to the home point? If yes - would you assume it kept on flying the same direction? Or?
I would like to locate the drone - there is high chance it didn't hit anything, so it was able to land somewhere - it still had 52% battery when it lost the connection with RC.
Thank you.